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The Sims 2

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The Sims 2 is a 2004 simulation game developed by Maxis and published by EA Games.

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About The Sims 2

From the neighborhood view, the player selects one lot to play, as in The Sims. While there are both residential and community lots, Sims can only live in residential lots. Sims can travel to community lots in order to purchase things like clothing and magazines, and to interact with NPCs and townies. The player can choose between playing a pre-made inhabited lot, moving a household into an unoccupied pre-built lot, or constructing a building on an empty lot. One novelty from The Sims is foundations. The player switches among the Live mode (default) to control Sims, the Buy mode to add, move, or delete furniture, and the Build mode to rebuild the house and make structural changes. Although the Buy and Build modes cannot be accessed when on a community lot, the lots can be built on by using the neighborhood view. It is also possible to import neighborhood terrains from SimCity 4.

The game contains some time-bound social challenges that provide a reward if successful. Sims can throw parties to gain aspiration points or invite the headmaster over for dinner in order to enroll their children in private school. Some expansion packs have new mini-games like running a Greek house in University, or dating in Nightlife. In Nightlife, each date is a challenge to keep both Sims as happy as possible while accumulating aspiration points. Various other expansion packs introduce supernatural characters which Sims can be turned into, such as Zombies, Vampires, Werewolves, PlantSims, and Witches.

The main part of the game is to lead a Sim from the start of life to death. A Sim will be born when a female Sim and a male Sim try for a baby several times. The mother will spend 3 Sim days (each day lasts 24 minutes though time can be sped-up) pregnant before giving birth to a baby. During Pregnancy, the belly does not expand gradually. Instead, every day, it pops to a bigger size. Players can name the new Sim upon birth. The baby's appearance and personality will be based on the genetics of its parents (though the baby's appearance is hidden until it becomes a toddler). Babies can also be adopted by calling adoption service on the phone, even by single parents, old age sims or same-gender couples. The baby will change into a toddler in 3 days, and 4 more days for the toddler to change into a child. After 8 days, the child grows into a teenager, and will live 15 days before changing into an adult. After 29 days, the Sim will become an elder. An elder will eventually die; the length of this final stage depends on the aspiration bar when they become an elder.

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1,168 thoughts on “The Sims 2”

  1. 0
    Hi when I go to the cas it crashes me game so then I reseted my laptop and I’m now gonna do it again and also was my was game crashing cuz i had windows 10 pro or do I need different windows help
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  2. 0
    Hi.
    I’ve dowloaded your game, but i can’t change the screen resolution.
    I can’t save the “graphicRules” with changes, since i’m not an administrator.
    I’m stuck with 800X600.. please help..??
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  3. 0
    Hi
    I’ve just “re”-downloaded TS2 Ultimate Collection, but the last time, I remember it was possible to change the language, but I forgot how I do that?
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  4. 0
    hi,
    ive followed your instructions and downloaded the game. the game loads however once I try to create a family the game crashes….any help please?!
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  5. 0
    Thanks so much! But, I’m having trouble with the DirectX included in the file, it says that a newer version of DirectX is installed and no installation is needed, but when I go to open up The Sims 2 (while opening as administrator) it says something about there is no DirectX 9.0 components installed on the driver and to please download the needed drivers from the manufacturer.
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      Yeah I’m having the same issue, I tried downloading the newest version from the Microsoft site but it still doesn’t work. I also tried downloading from the link you provided but still not avail. Please help.
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        I did some reading and sorry guys it’s a very complicated problem that has to do with your graphics drivers, there’s no easy fix for this. If possible at all you should download the game on a different laptop
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  6. 0
    Hi, first of all: thank you for let us download this game, it was really hard to find before.
    For me the game is working but there are some issues with forniture in the expansion packs, like some items are missing in the university EP
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  7. 0
    Hey, it’s me again. I FINALLY managed to download the whole file, but I have a problem. Usually whenever I download a new game, I always uncheck the “create a desktop icon” box so that I can manually create my own shortcut in my games folder. But when I went to search for the .exe file, I realized that there’s a 1,000 different .exe files. Which one do I click on to start the game: (I would paste screenshots here, but a message keeps coming up saying that I have to be logged in to post a picture. But If you go to the “The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection” folder and type in “.exe” to the search bar, it should come up with exactly 121 .exe files. )
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        Updated reply: Is each “expansion pack” its own separate game or something, or can they all be accessed from the main game? (I’m a noob to the series). And since I can’t find “The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection.exe”, would this one work: “Mr DJ > The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection > The Sims 2 > TSBin > Sims2.exe” ? Or am I looking in the wrong spot?
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          Ok I just clicked on it. A few seconds after the splash screen appeared, a message came up telling me to “insert the correct CD-Rom”. What should I do?
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          Ok, I just finished redownloading/reextracting the file. Now I’m just reinstalling it, and once it’s finished I’ll click on the desktop icon. I’ll let you know how it goes. HOPEFULLY it works now. I’ve heard a lot of good things about this game.
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    Is there any way for you to break up the download in to 2 parts to make it easier for people who don’t have MEGA Pro to download it? (And then we could just combine the 2 downloaded files together.) Or maybe offer a DIRECT download link? (i.e. , Upload the file to THIS site instead of taking us to an EXTERNAL site like MEGA.).
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      Hey “Visions in the Moment”, the “Mansion and Garden Stuff” folder should be in “Mr DJ > The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection”. In that folder, there should be 18 folders in total. 1 for the main game, 16 for the expansion packs, and 1 for the uninstall wizard.
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  9. 0
    Hi,
    Thanks for uploading this game, but the problem is that I can’t download it on Mega. When are you guys gonna put it on another downloader?
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      It’s really difficult to find a place to host it because of its size, for example Mediafire would not allow it. Using Mega you can download the full file but you might have to wait around 5 hours at one point
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  10. 0
    Hello!
    I tried to download, but when the download hit 87% it stopped and told me i had to wait 2 hours for it to continue for free. I waited those 2 hours, and now it’s just showing a red dot where the countdown was. What do i do? My internet is slow so downloading takes forever.. I reallt don’t wanna start over…
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      We’re currently uploading the game to a different host than MEGA because of things like this. Knowing mega though if you close your tab which your downloading and then reopen it, it should continue at the 87% mark but don’t close your browser, just the tab
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  11. 0
    Hi ! First of all i wanna say thankyou, because it worked for me! It did take some time because i had to download some features to get it to actually work on my laptop without crashing. But it works now 🙂 I do have one question, when i play the game, i only have the basic furnitures and not the things from the expansion packs which is really dissapointing, do you know how i can solve this? 🙂
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  12. 0
    At around 20% while downloading I get an error saying unable to write data to disk. The error code is -11. How can I fix this? Please help.
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